Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

F Caron, EB Fox - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Statistical network modelling has focused on representing the graph as a discrete structure,
namely the adjacency matrix. When assuming exchangeability of this array—which can aid …

Are Gibbs-type priors the most natural generalization of the Dirichlet process?

P De Blasi, S Favaro, A Lijoi, RH Mena… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discrete random probability measures and the exchangeable random partitions they induce
are key tools for addressing a variety of estimation and prediction problems in Bayesian …

Models beyond the Dirichlet process

A Lijoi, I Prünster - Bayesian nonparametrics, 2010 - books.google.com
Bayesian nonparametric inference is a relatively young area of research and it has recently
undergone a strong development. Most of its success can be explained by the considerable …

MCMC for normalized random measure mixture models

S Favaro, YW Teh - 2013 - projecteuclid.org
This paper concerns the use of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for posterior sampling in
Bayesian nonparametric mixture models with normalized random measure priors. Making …

Nonparametric network models for link prediction

SA Williamson - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2016 - jmlr.org
Many data sets can be represented as a sequence of interactions between entities--for
example communications between individuals in a social network, protein-protein …

A review of uncertainty quantification for density estimation

S McDonald, D Campbell - 2021 - projecteuclid.org
A review of uncertainty quantification for density estimation Page 1 Statistics Surveys Vol. 15
(2021) 1–71 ISSN: 1935-7516 https://doi.org/10.1214/21-SS130 A review of uncertainty …

Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors

A Zito, T Rigon, DB Dunson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.02360, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
Dirichlet process mixtures are particularly sensitive to the value of the precision parameter
controlling the behavior of the latent partition. Randomization of the precision through a prior …

Completely random measures for modelling block-structured sparse networks

T Herlau, MN Schmidt, M Mørup - Advances in Neural …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Statistical methods for network data often parameterize the edge-probability by attributing
latent traits such as block structure to the vertices and assume exchangeability in the sense …

Bayesian Nonparametrics: An Alternative to Deep Learning

B Moraffah - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.00085, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bayesian nonparametric models offer a flexible and powerful framework for statistical model
selection, enabling the adaptation of model complexity to the intricacies of diverse datasets …

Defining predictive probability functions for species sampling models

J Lee, FA Quintana, P Müller… - Statistical science: a …, 2013 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We review the class of species sampling models (SSM). In particular, we investigate the
relation between the exchangeable partition probability function (EPPF) and the predictive …